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ANDREAS STOCKINGER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIAIIUNGARY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,527, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed January 12,1901. Serial No. 42,952. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREAS STOCKINGER, hair-dresser, a subject of the Emperor of Anstria-Hungary, residing at 4 Spiegelgasse, Vienna I, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to a hair-fastener, and relates more especially to a device approximately in the shape of a buckle for securing the hair when done up in the desired position; and the object of the invention is to provide such a fastener as will do its work efficiently, is easy to operate, cheap in manufacture, and not liable to get out of order.

In order to elucidate my invention, I have annexedone sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the mode of applying the hair-fasteners,the left fastener being in closed position, the right one in opened position. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of the fas- Fig. 3 is a plan of same. Figs. 4 and 5 represent, in plan and section, part of a modification of the fastener. Figs. 6 and 7 are section and plan views, respectively, of another modification; and Fig. 8 shows a perspective View of part of still another modification.

The fastener mainly consists of an oblong frame 1, which is slightly curved, as plainly shown in the drawings, and of a prong or needle 2, likewise slightly curved and provided at one end with an oblong eye 3. The one end 4 of the frame 1 engages this eye 3, as shown in Fig. 2, the needle or prong 2 therefore being capable of a to-and-fro movement the length of the eye 3. The frame 1, as well as the prong 2, may be of any desirable and suitable material-celluloid, torshorter hairs being brushed upward, so as to rest upon the longer hairs. The frame 1 is now turned down until the prong with the caught hair passes through the frame. The prong is now moved into its foremost position, the front end of it resting upon the frame end 5.

The curvature of the parts admits of the fastener following the shape of the head.

To prevent lateral displacement of the eyedprong end, small rings or flanges 7 may be arranged on either side upon the frame end 4, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

In order to more securely retain the prong in its two end positions, the eye may consist of resilient material, with a narrow passage and enlargements at either end of it, as shown in Fig. 5.-

A further modification is shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The frame 1 here is open at its one end, like a hair-pin, and provided with an eye 13 at the free end of either leg, and the prong is provided with a cross-axle 9, adapted to slide in the said eyes 13. Flanges 7 prevent a lateral displacement of the prong.

In the modification illustrated by Fig. 8 the frame end 4 is provided with an eye 11, the diameter of which is such that the prong the one end of which is guided in this eye 11 is capable of the necessary up-and-down movement. Flanges or balls 12prevent the prong from falling out.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hair fastener consisting of an elongated loop-shaped frame and 2. prong or needle having a sliding connection with one end and adapted to overlap the other end of said frame, substantially as described.

2. A hair-fastener comprising an .oblong curved frame and a correspondingly-curved prong, the one end of which is provided with an oblong eye, said eye being adapted to re ceive the one end of the said frame, the parts being arranged and working substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a hair-fastener the combination of an oblong curved frame, a curved prong having at one end an oblong eye and pivoting about the one end of the said frame, and flanges upon the said frame end, one on either side of the said eyed-prong end, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a hair-fastener the combination of an I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set oblong curved frame, a curved prong having my hand in presence of two subscribing witat one end an oblong eye consisting of anarnesses.

row passage and an enlargement at either ANDREAS STOOKINGER. 5 end of this passage, said prong being adapt- \Vitnesses:

ed to pivot about the one end of the frame, 0. R. HURST,

substantially as set forth. ALVESTO S. IIOGUE. 

